To exist in a certain manner or relation, whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man.

To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.

To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.

Prefix, originally the same word as by; To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, bestir.

To render an intransitive verb transitive; as, befall ; bespeak.

Abbreviation for Base Embossed Used to denote that there is embossing on the base of the insulator See also: Base.

Belgium, with Luxembourg.

British Embassy.

Chemical symbol for Beryllium.

Excess Burst Rate.

Been.

Goddamn.

Onside.

Underarm.

To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget ; beset.

Spend or use time; 'I may be an hour' work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; 'He is a herpetologist'; 'She is our resident philosopher' have the quality of being; ; 'John is rich'; 'This is not a good answer' have life, be alive; 'Our great leader is no more'; 'My grandfather lived until the end of war' be identical to; be someone or something; 'The president of the company is John Smith'; 'This is my house' occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; 'Where is my umbrella?' 'The toolshed is in the back'; 'What is behind this behavior?' to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form; 'let her be' happen, occur, take place; 'I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house'; 'There were two hundred people at his funeral'; 'There was a lot of noise in the kitchen'.

The two-character ISO 3166 country code for BELGIUM.

To have actuality LO - expresses surprise TI - a tone of the scale.

The maximum amount of uncommitted data in excess of Bc that a frame relay network can attempt to deliver during a time interval Tc This data generally is delivered with a lower probability than Bc The network treats Be data as discard eligible See also Committed Burst Size.